Ballet Shoes at Daycare

Hello?

Hello, I'm trying to reach Tim.

Timmy?

I'm here.

Doing, man.

My name is Reginald.

Actually, calling from the uh

daycare with your son uh little Timmy goes.

Uh i i is everything okay?

We're cool?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, then there's nothing wrong with him.

Uh uh, everything's good with him.

He's good.

He's safe and everything.

How you doing today?

I'm doing all right.

I'm just trying to figure out what's going on.

You know, hey, what's going on?

Okay, I'm I'm good, man.

We got a little bit of a uh a little bit of a conduct issue.

What are you doing?

You know another kid?

What are you doing?

Fighting?

No, no, no.

We you know, he he's he's not fighting, he gets along.

He's he's four years old, right?

And he seems to get around with all the other um four or five, six year old is he he's he's pretty good with that.

Well, okay.

Well, let me we'll say to be the problem then.

Let me l let me ask you something.

Have you noticed any um any irregularities uh at at home?

Is there anything different about uh about little Timmy?

Uh no, not at all.

No, I'm not not s no.

Okay, we got some uh well i irregularities uh uh I just call it conduct issues.

Uh and it's not necessarily a conduct issue.

So this is not anything that he's hurting or or getting into it with any of the other kids.

But I I was gonna call your wife at first, but I wanted to call you.

Uh I thought this would be a great uh man to man conversation, okay?

What are you trying to get at, man?

I'm I'm at work, I'm trying to w what what is it?

It's not a conduct, he ain't hitting no nobody.

What is it?

Well, he he he's doing some things that I thought that you as a father would probably want to know about.

Now, you know, if we take a nap every day at one o'clock here at the uh at the daycare.

You know, the kids go to the to the to the closet to get their blankets.

Well, he's he's actually uh

your son is rushing to the closet to make sure he gets the pink blanket.

And he doesn't want the blue or the red blanket that all the other boys are fighting over.

Your son wants the pink blanket.

Four years old.

What do you mean?

It's a pink blanket.

Right.

But let me let me Things continue a little further.

That's not the only thing that's been taking place.

Now, at three o'clock in the evening, the the young boys go out and they play ball in the back.

You know, we have a complete playground for them.

For the girls, they the girls stay inside.

And we have an instructor that comes over and teaches them ballet.

But your son, well, your your son wants to stay inside and and he wants to do the ballet.

He he's actually he he's actually taking some of the shoes, the ballet shoes from one of the girls.

And he he's been wearing them for the last three weeks every day through uh uh while while he's here at the daycare.

He wears the ballet shoes.

So so so what so what the hell are you trying to tell me?

My my son look what what what are you thinking?

He wearing ballet shoes?

That that's what that's why that's why I wanted to call you, man, and talk to you.

You know, I didn't want to talk to your wife.

I wanted to talk to you.

He's been putting on his ballet shoes, and he don't want to go out and play with the boys.

He he he wearing the ballet shoes, man.

And he he knew when the ballet instructor comes.

Well, don't be doing all that around.

I don't even know what you're trying to get at.

I'm trying to figure out why he's putting on the ballet shoes and y'all let me put on the ballet shoes.

Well, I I've let it go on a couple weeks.

He's been he he he every time I've tried to take the ballet shoes from him, he started crying, and I let it go for so long, and I said, you know what, I'm just gonna call the father and talk to him.

I'm glad you did.

Well what

we need to do.

Well, he's doing one more thing that kind of grabs me by surprise.

He's snapping his fingers at the other boys in a in a circular motion.

Whoa.

You know, his whole arm is in a circular motion.

You telling me, first of all, I want to know, did somebody give him this thing blanket.

He in the first place, but him to think it that is here.

You got him around here wearing ballet shoes and snapping his fingers around in the circular motion around these other chairs.

They'll do that damn.

No, sir, it's not what we're doing at the daycare, and I'm glad you brought that up.

It's what's going on at home.

Now I wanna ask you, do you do you with balls by all this weight?

We do man and stuff around there.

So all this you bring up right here.

This is new to me, man.

Okay, sir.

Sir my uh

let me say this.

We're not doing anything, and that's the reason why I wanted to call you.

I wanna ask you this.

Do do you and I don't mean any harm, but but do you wear ballet shoes?

Why you watch everyone?

No, I don't wear no ballet shoes.

I want steel through boots to work.

Stop it.

You you you got one more time to say some about them ballet shoes.

What is around here?

Do you wear ballet shoes?

Uh the ha uh do you snap your fingers in a in a circular motion?

I'm gonna snap your neck.

You keep talking about some snapping and some ballet shoes and blankets and I you know what?

I tell you what, I'm gonna be down there at six thirty.

You won't be there at six thirty.

Uh yeah, I I'll I'll be here at the at the actual daycare at six thirty.

Hey, I I tell you what, I'm gonna show you the ballet shoe.

Six thirty your bag is down there.

I'm gonna be there for ballet shoes.

Sir, I I I will be here at six thirty, sir.

We're gonna dress this back in ballet shoes.

I don't know where this coming from.

What the f your name is?

Red, I'm I'm I'm assuming that you are uh uh I mean, are you familiar with the nutcracker?

Do you are you into ballet?

Look, keep it up.

Six thirty, hey, I you better pray the dogs you're not down there at six thirty.

And you better not have on no ballet shoes.

Let them have on some ballet shoes and I'll come down there.

I'm saying I'm I'm gonna make you touch everything.

Sir, I'm gonna leave I'm gonna leave the ballet shoes on him so that you can see them on him.

Didn't I tell you don't wear no bad shoes?

Sir, why why?

You're getting I raised.

No, sir.

You tell me about some belly shoes.

My son don't wear no bad shoes.

I'm not happy to serve no snap.

Well could it be?

You're not talking about this stupid what you got to say.

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Yep.

Y'all

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See?

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I listen all the time.

I'll be saying case and never give me that.

Hey, look here, let me ask

you.